Gavin Extence Quotes
In the long history of human affairs, common sense doesn’t have the greatest track record.
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I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.
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When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.
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To be smart on crime, we should not be in a position of constantly reacting to crime after it happens. We should be looking at preventing crime before it happens.
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Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
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And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.
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There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.
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The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.
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If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.
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There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. The Talmud tells us that by saving a single human being, man can save the world.
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You like me, you don't like me, you love me, you hate me. I'm gonna be me, but one thing I have to back it up is skills.
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Football's my No. 1 love, but basketball's right up there also. This job has prepared me for any other job I take.
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The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings.
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When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision.
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Praise can be your most valuable asset as long as you don't aim it at yourself.
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Television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information - misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information - information that creates the illusion of knowing something, but which in fact leads one away from knowing.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
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In the long history of human affairs, common sense doesn’t have the greatest track record.
